Linkage relationships of human arginine vasopressin-neurophysin-II and oxytocin-neurophysin-I to prodynorphin and other loci on chromosome 20.

The structural genes for human prepro-arginine-vasopressin-neurophysin II (prepro-AVP-NPII; ARVP) locus and prepro-oxytocin-neurophysin-I (prepro-OT-NPI; OT) locus are closely linked separated by only 12 kilobasepairs of DNA. These two loci have been assigned to chromosome 20 by previous studies of somatic cell hybrids. We used Southern blots to analyze a restriction fragment length polymorphism detected by a probe for prepro-OT-NPI to determine the linkage relationships for the ARVP/OT loci using samples from the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (Paris, France) collection of families. The ARVP/OT loci demonstrated extremely close linkage with the prodynorphin (PDYN) locus, with no recombinants (theta of 0) and a log10 odds score of 5.2. Previous observations have shown the ARVP and PDYN peptides to be coexcreted in the same neurosecretory granules of some pituitary axons and that increased transcription of both genes occurs with osmotic stimulation. The combined ARVP/PT/PDYN group was also found to demonstrate linkage with other anonymous DNA segments on chromosome 20, including D20S4, D20S5, and D20S6. Using multilocus linkage analysis, the ARVP/OT loci map to the distal short arm of chromosome 20 about 15 centimorgans toward the telomere from the D20S5 locus, which is located near the middle of the short arm at 20p 12.21. These linkage relationships establish that the secretory and transcriptional associations of ARVP and PDYN extend to a close physical relationship in the human genome. Furthermore, the restriction fragment length polymorphism detected by these loci can serve as accurate markers in segregation studies of putative defects involving the OT, ARVP, or PDYN loci as well as provide a tool for studying the location of other genes, such as GH-releasing hormone.

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